Barry Manilow sings Moon River on the new Dave Koz CD. :D
Best question in ages: why hasn't Lieberman been stripped of his committee memberships?
I hate Elisabitch Hasselblech and everything she stands for!
I don't watch The View because of her.
I just may breakdown and buy Barry Manilow's album.
I saw the Manilow bit in the paper yesterday and was surprised more people didn't pick it up. Beautiful way of working it in.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck drives down the value of a Boston College degree with every appearance on The View.
i am a bit like you LM. i'm not hugely fond of manilow's music, but i admire his craft. it is superb. during dry spells barry wanders back into the jingle game and that's where our paths crossed. in pop, he's formidable. in jingles, he's a fucking monster. when he has a mere 20 seconds to grab attention, deliver a message and emotion, he nails it down tight. maybe the 3:05 of the pop format is too long for him.
he's also a genuinely nice man. a joy to work with and for.
i am even prouder to know him right now. good for you barry. you just showed more spine than the entire congress of the united states.
I was yesterday at Kathy Griffin's show in DC and she mentioned it. I had a great time there but she takes most of her inspiration from the well-known dredges of popular 'celebrity' culture that, well, aren't so well-known for me far too often.
Anyway, her take on it was that it was so odd to see Barry Manilow taking a stand there instead of someone like, say, Sean Penn or Tim Robbins.
My 2c of the day. Man I'm cheap 
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What are Elisabeth Hasselbeck's views?
I don't watch The View.
Talking to my 70-year old mother yesterday morning, she was saying how much she admired how [she said me, but I'm going to extend it to all of the writers here at GNB] know so much about so many different subjects.
It's just... all of us are like that. It's kinda a prereq to working here.
1. I absolutely agree with minstrel. In jingles, Barry is a fucking monster. No kidding.
One of my all time favs of his is when he does his Jingle Medley and knows everything from the McDonalds commercial to like, 10 other commercials you know all the words to, in 3 minutes. And you had no clue all of them were Barry. Blows your freaking mind. It's the break-out hit of the album.
2. I love Barry. Always have. Remember when I was at Walter Reed at 17 with the surgeons digging into my eyeball, trying to repair the damage from when it got slashed in half from the fight at 13...
(Yeah, they shouldn't have let me in the Army; it was a mistake. They fucked up my physical. But once I was in, I was in. My option to stay in or get out. I stood up to my Drill Sgt and my 1st Sgt too and if that don't take balls in fucking basic training, you don't know shit. Then they ran in me front of the Company Commander and I had to stand up to him telling me I was gone, and I had to tell him, respectfully, that I was staying. And sure 'nuff, I did. The surgery at WRAMC was to try and fix the damage once it was clear I actually was staying. They fixed it good enough I got cleared for flight status. Hurrah!)
...and all I had after the operating waiting around to get better, out in those shitty barracks they stick the fucking enlisted pigs, was my Barry tapes and my PX portable sound box. And a weekend's supply of Spam (the tasty lunch meat) and crackers. Mmm-mmm-good. And a P-38 can opener
, the greatest fucking invention the Army ever made. Except the Huey. And maybe my personal weapon.
Anyway, Barry and I... I must have listened to Mandy about 50 times that weekend.
Anyway, got to go.
Barry rules.
Plus, he gives great concert.
Thank you LM, for posting this. Its exactly what I thought a couple days ago in some email I sent. I'm not a fan really, but I do appreciate his amazing talent in crafting songs. His stand here, and his simple, yet VERY effective, statement in kool-aid drunk lizzy's face made him a superstar to me instantly! Good for HIM! Good for US!!
I also thought Dan Rather's CBS suit yesterday, saying they sold him out to protect the bush crime family, was another great slap at the msm.
Every little bit helps empower others to do the same. There's no making nice with these evil people. None. No compromise, no excuse for abdicating responsibility to truth. I'm lookin' at you Congress, over the top of my glasses with my best hairy eyeball glare. Take a clue.
They are dangerous people! Right on Barry Manilow!! Right on LM 
Barry rocks. Well, maybe not on wax but he sure does have guts and conviction. I am eternally grateful to my dad for lettin' me wear the grooves out of his copies of No Count Sarah and Miles' Kind of Blue. At that time it was sudden proof that a sound other than that produced by the Godfather, the Allman Brothers, or Tower of Power could heal a young dude's soul.
Thank you for this post, LM. I'm one African-American who likes certain cuts, Manilow, like "Brooklyn Blues" or "Copacabana".
Having said that, I absolutely agree that if Manilow can call out wingnut Elisabeth Hasselback (who's only claim to fame is that she's married to QB Matt)on her wingnuttery, why can't Harry Reid use some of that powder he's been keeping dry to go after the ReThugs?
Additionally, "The View" is already letting the viewer know what side it's on when they can force off Rosie O'Donnell (who I can't stand, but she does make good viewpoints on occasion) but retain a no-contribution to the Discussion wingnut like Hasselbeck on that couch.
The first thing that pissed me off when the Democrats took back the Senate, was Reid's refusal to relieve Joe Lieberman from his Committee assignments and took Joe at his word (which amounts to a pile of shyt) that dude would vote Democrat, and has been screwing over the Democratic side of the Senate because there were those who had the good sense to get behind Ned Lamont in the primary.
“(who's only claim to fame is that she's married to QB Matt)”
Not even that—. Homegirl isn't maried to Matt Hasselbeck. Matt' the talented wingnut QB is her brother-in-law. She's married to Tim Hasselbeck, Matt's scrub-ass, back-up QB brother who washed out with the NY Giants.
Meanwhile, the show further embarrasses itself with its newest import—an idiot “pepper” counterpart to Hasselbeck's half-wit “salt” stupidity—Sherri Shepherd,who commented on-air that not only did she NOT believe in evolution, but also wasn't certain if the earth was flat or not.
In one fucking week, she makes Rosie O'Donnell look like Dave Garroway. Just amazing.
Not even that—. Homegirl isn't maried to Matt Hasselbeck. Matt' the talented wingnut QB is her brother-in-law. She's married to Tim Hasselbeck, Matt's scrub-ass, back-up QB brother who washed out with the NY Giants.
LM, I stand corrected. And to bring in a House Negress to counter Whoopi and provide cover for Hasselbeck just goes to show some of our people will sell out their principles and their ethics in order to do their "Stepin Fetchit" acts for Media Massa. Ugh.
I'm taking bets that Whoopi won't be there long before she calls out Shepherd on her "Aunt Jemima" acts...
“And to bring in a House Negress to counter Whoopi and provide cover for Hasselbeck just goes to show some of our people will sell out their principles and their ethics in order to do their "Stepin Fetchit" acts for Media Massa. Ugh.”
That's exactly why they brought Shepherd in. Whoopi would drop science all over Hasselbeck's soap-bubble head, without Rosie's histrionics to distract from the words. So, in comes Shepherd as vacuous, brain-deadening chaff to fill the air, blunt Whoopi's subtle barbs, and generally be the Hershey chocolate to Hassselbeck's empty Marshmallow in “The View's” hot, and filling “S'more” of freeper stupid.
I've seen that View show a couple of times in friends' homes long before the current rank era. It was so bad then, I had to get a fake emergency call on my cell phone so I could escape the premises and not have to hear it any more. How could you dear readers even bother to watch it now? Is there some kind of esoteric psychic payoff or some bizarre subtext and backstory that you have to be in on to enjoy the drivel?
Or is it the basic human cheap thrill of watching a train wreck in progress?
That show has had so many facelifts that the TV screen as you watch it now seems like a bubble about to pop.
Watch out!
Yes an excellent songwriter and musician,but not my cup of tea.
Having said that I recall one album of his maybe mid to late 80's.I'm 99%
sure it's Mr.M. called Brooklyn Blues.What i heard of that album on local radio was so good I've been trying to find it ever since.
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